Chaucerian

comparative more Chaucerian · superlative most Chaucerian

1. literatureOf or pertaining to Geoffrey Chaucer or his writings.

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   Literary Bengali of prose, during the greater part of the 19th century, was thus a doubly artificial language ; and, with its forms belonging to Middle Bengali, and its vocabulary highly Sanskritised, it could only be compared to a 'Modern English' with a Chaucerian grammar and a super-Johnsonian vocabulary, if such a thing could be conceived.

   1926, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language, page 134

plural Chaucerians

1. literatureA poet influenced by Chaucer.
2. A student of the works of Chaucer.